I’ve read before that this varies around the world with culture. In some places (US, UK) typical players presented with a create a character screen default to trying to make themselves. In other places (Japan) this isn’t such a thing. In reality there’s no real reason that when creating a character it should look like you. I assume everyone watches and enjoys movies where the main character doesn’t look like them. Why should it be different for video games?

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Oh nice, hopefully this game is good. I probably wouldn’t have heard about it if they weren’t whinging. I’ve always wanted to play a game in the same genre but there really weren’t any others that I was aware of. Tarkov not being sold on steam, having an inadequate anti-cheat, and being in “beta” for seven years now was enough that I never wanted to support them.